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Decadent Worker #57 - 22Jul87

Decadent Worker 57THE MESSIAH FROM UKIAH

In order to understand the strange events surrounding Jonestown, we must begin with a history of the people involved. The official story of a religious fanatic and his idealist followers doesn’t make sense in light of the evidence of murders, armed killers and autopsy cover-ups…

Jim Jones grew up in Lynn, in southern Indiana. His father was an active member of the local Ku Klux Klan that infest that area. His friends found him a little strange, and he was interested in preaching the Bible and religious rituals. Perhaps more important was his boyhood friendship with Dan Mitrione, confirmed by local residents… Mitrione, his friend, worked as chief of police… Dan Mitrione… moved on to the CIA-financed International Police Academy, where police were trained in counter-insurgency and torture techniques from around the world. Jones, a poor, itinerant preacher, suddenly had money in 1961 for a trip to “minister” in Brazil… An American police advisor, working closely with the CIA at that point, Dan Mitrione was there as well. Mitrione had risen in the ranks quickly, and was busy training foreign police in torture and assassination methods. He was later kidnapped by Tupemaro guerillas in Uruguay, interrogated and murdered. Costa Gavras made a film about his death, titled State of Siege. Jones returned to the United States in 1963, with $10,000 in his pocket…

With his new wealth, Jones was able to travel to California and establish the first People’s Temple in Ukiah, California, in 1965. Guarded by dogs, electric fences and guard towers, he set up Happy Havens Rest Home. Despite a lack of trained personnel, or proper licensing, Jones drew in many at the camp. He had elderly, prisoners, people from psychiatric institutions, and 150 foster children, often transferred to care at Happy Havens by court orders. He was contacted there by Christian missionaries from World Vision, an international evangelist order that had done espionage work for the CIA in Southeast Asia. He met “influential” members of the community, and was befriended by Walter Healy, the head of the local chapter of the John Birch Society. He used members of his “church” to organize local voting drives for Richard Nixon’s election, and worked closely with the Republican Party. He was even appointed chairman of the county grand jury…

Jones changed his image to that of a liberal. He had spent time studying the preaching methods of Father Divine in Philadelphia, and attempted to use them in a manipulative way on the streets of Frisco… Jones was able to use his followers in an election once again, this time for Mayor Moscone. Moscone responded in 1976, putting Jones in charge of the city Housing Commission. In addition, many of his key followers got jobs with the city Welfare Department, and much of the recruitment to the Temple in San Francisco came from the ranks of these unemployed and dispossessed people. Jones was introduced to many influential liberal and radical people ranging from Roslyn Carter to Angela Davis.

The period when Jones began the Temple there marked the end of an important political decade. Nixon’s election had ushered in a domestic intelligence war against the movements for peace, civil rights and social justice. Names like COINTELPRO, CHAOS, and OPERATION GARDEN PLOT or the HOUSTON PLAN made the news following in the wake of the Watergate revelations… These operations involved… a full-scale attempt to discredit, disrupt and destroy the movements that sprang up in the 1960’s. (”Jonestown: CIA, Assassinations, Drugs and Mind Control” by John Judge, Critique #21/22

Decadent Worker #32 - 27April87

Decadent Worker 32CONTACT ALIEN INTELLIGENCE: REAWAKEN YOUR MASTURBATION GUILT!

“Keehner became disgusted by the picking-at-scabs aspect of TSS assessment work. Once the PAS had identified a target as having potential mental instabilities, staff members sometimes suggested ways to break him down, reasoning that by using a ratchetlike approach to put him under increased pressure, they might be able to break the lines that tied him to his country, if not his sanity. Keehner stated, ‘I was sent to deal with the most negative aspects of the human condition. It was planned destructiveness. First, you’d check to see if you could destroy a man’s marriage. If you could, then that would be enough to put a lot of stress on the individual, to break him down. Then you might start a minor rumor campaign against him. Harass him constantly. Bump his car in traffic. A lot of it is ridiculous, but it may have a cumulative effect.’ Agency case officers might also use this same sort of stress-producing campaign against a particularly effective enemy intelligence officer whom they knew they could never recruit but whom they hoped to neutralize.

“…’You pick the thing most fearful to him — the things which would cause him the most doubt,’ says the source. ‘If his greatest fear is that he can’t trust you to protect him and his family, you overload your pitch with your ability to do it. Other people need structure, so you tell them exactly what they will need to do. If you leave it open-ended, they’ll be scared you’ll ask them to do things they’re incapable of.’ (Footnote: This source reports that case officers usually used this sort of nonthreatening approach and switched to the roughter stuff if the target decided he did not want to spy for the CIA….)

“….The TSS staff assessors sent a report back to the field on the best way to deal with the new agent and the most effective means to exploit him.” — John Marks, The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate” (The New York Times Book Co., 1979), pp. 174-5

Early August of 1987: the 12th anniversary of a harassment campaign that has been going on against me since 12 days after I approached Public Safety Commissioner Reginald Eaves with information about my JFK assassination discussions with Brother-in-law. Every technique mentioned above has been used, among others, unrelentingly. Only I was not asked to join the CIA — even if retired CIA agent Tracy Barnes has been much involved. Instead, I was asked to follow the leadership of the Russian Communist Party. When that didn’t work I was asked to follow the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.

As much isn’t necessarily an indication the Communists were behind it. Since my assassination testimony involved my personal prior knowledge of a plot to deliberately stir up a war in Asia — Vietnam, as it turned out — were I to join a Communist Party the truth of my allegations would be suspect. So it could easily have been the CIA and/or the Nazi Vril Society (and/or Jamaica’s Tryall Club, the Defense Industrial Security Command, the Trilateral Commission, John Birchers, Royal Arch Masons, etc., etc.) who instigated my non-stop persecution. Gerald Ford, who served on the Warren Commission, was President when it began.

Since I had in 1972 and 1973 been writing a column for San Francisco Ball, an adult bookstore sex tabloid, espousing Erotic Minority Liberation (liberation of all so-called perverts, following the cues of Black, Women’s and Gay Liberation), sexual harassment has been a principal means of psychological warfare employed against me.

For many years I have neglected to discuss this subject in full because: 1) my own sexual views are so radical and those of society in general so conservative and those of the intelligence community in particular so reactionary, that I cannot always decide what is persecution and what is, instead, simply values in conflict; 2) the very mention of sexuality is so threatening to many people that my detailed discussion of the subject is lost on them because their emotional blocks prevent any communication from occurring; 3) in order to make my experience comprehensible to others I will have to introduce so much tangential material that both the writing and the reading of a series of articles about sex and conspiracies will require unusual effort; 4) the attitudes about sexuality that prevail among intelligence agencies and secret societies are so hidebound and inhumane as to defy probability in the eyes of most outsiders; 5) so many of the other things that are happening in my life, in he context surrounding the sexual harassments, are so incredible to anyone unaware of the techno-cryptocracy that allusions thereto may seem like delusions, instead.

For example in 1976 I discovered I was being electronically surveilled by a very large number of people; adequate hints were given to convince me of that much — although this conspiracy, whicih was obviously illegal, was careful not to furnish me with any evidence that could be used to convince others of its existence. These people struck me very much as someone’s captive audience — who cried when I was suffering and laughed when funny things were happening in my life. That most of them may have already been there before I became interested in solving the JFK murder mystery, did not even occur to me. My conclusion was that a number of foreign intelligence agencies and secret societies had collided as a result of all becoming interested in my case at the same time — that upon investigating me and my allegations they became entangled with one another, with the material of my life as their only common point of reference. Now what could sound more like delusions of grandeur? People will read it and say, ‘The poor guy! He took his findings to the police and the Senate committee and was ignored. That was such a crushing blow to his ego that his unconscious mind constructed an elaborate delusional system to maintain his self-esteem — because he needs to think that he is an important person after all. So he imagines that all these conspiracies are paying all this clandestine attention to him.’

Before I discovered conspiracy politics that is what I would have said about anyone who came to me with such a story.

But it gets worse. I left Atlanta and went to California to get away from all hese busybody spies — with no luck. Nor was it just some minor conspiracy to freak me out. When something particularly sexually unconventional happened to me — as once when a little girl caught me masturbating and declared as much delightedly and loudly to everyone in the house — everyone, everywhere I went in town, for the rest of that day, with few exceptions, was blushing. They were read as beets. There is no faking something like that.

Eventually I made a request. I asked for make-believe privacy. I said, “Just be kind enough to treat me the way the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto treated one another.” Never, ever ask a bunch of Nazis to emulate the example of Jews.